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21st Century Media and JournalismFri, 07 Nov 2014 00:13:00 +0000hourly1By: David Altheerhttp://georgebrock.net/james-harding-departs-the-times-follow-the-money/comment-page-1/#comment-6354
Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:56:18 +0000http://georgebrock.net/?p=2719#comment-6354Excellent. Professor Brock is one of the few mediastias to have noted that newspapers still have not found a way of profiting with the internet.
It’s difficult for an outsider to see why James Harding is being so widely praised when he made less progress in devising an internet-era business plan than Alan Rusbridger, and even his daring has yet to pay off for The Guardian. The quality of Harding’s Times, incidentally, was high. The website search engine did not always work.
It happened that just as I was turning to Radio 4’s Media Show yesterday to hear it cover the sacking, a News Int salesman phoned to ask me to resubscribe to the 7-day Times-SundTimes deal. He did not know about Harding’s departure. I told the flunky I was reluctant to resubscribe, given that the papers were likely to merge and that a merged website would be irritating. This is bcs the ST has little worth to my family, apart from its arts, feats and biz sections. The thought of the ST ethos infecting The Times news pages is frightening.
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